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The joint committee, designated CAMROC, the Cambridge Radio Observatory Committee, is sponsored by Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and M.I.T. and the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. Co-chairmen Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, and Jerome B. Wiesner, dean of the School of Science at M.I.T., head the group...
"Victory or Westminster Abbey!" cried Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797. He knew that in the monumental heap of well-chiseled stone and marble lay the heroes of his nation. An Unknown Soldier from World War I lies beneath the Abbey's roof. In...
The Knife. From the Renaissance through the 18th century the countertenor was the most popular singer in Europe. Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, and especially Henry Purcell, himself a countertenor, composed a wealth of lute songs, folk ballads, cantatas, hymns, operas, madrigals and carols for the male alto. The rage for the...
No Oozy Wash. At 28, against almost everyone's advice, Deller gave up his promising career in the furniture business to sing with the Canterbury Cathedral choir. His salary as a choir singer was only $600 a year, and he supplemented his income by working as a farm hand...
A PURCELL ANTHOLOGY (Angel). Some youthful discretions by England's greatest composer, performed in singing style by Violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy and members of the Bath Festival Orchestra. Mood and key flash from dark to bright in the short, rich trio sonatas and free-form fantasias for...